Founding

What is now the Cadet Corps Alumni Council (CCAC) began with a 30 September 1996 letter inviting some cadet corps alumni to attend a dinner. By 1997, the CCAC was organized with Col. Joel Ward (Ret) serving as the first president. The CCAC soon became, and continues to be, one of UTA’s most viable and active alumni organizations. We started as a chapter of the UTA Alumni Association and enjoyed an excellent relationship. In 2006, however, the Alumni Association decided to reorganize along strictly geographic lines and existing chapters aligned with schools and departments were asked to change from a chapter to a group affiliated with their particular school or department.

Accordingly we dropped our designation as the Cadet Corps Alumni Chapter and become the Cadet Corps Alumni Council, an organization affiliated with the Military Science Department. Thus, we are no longer accountable to the Alumni Association, but continue to support them and the university.

Over the years the CCAC has adapted to meet challenges, but our purposes—to support an outstanding ROTC program at UTA,  develop future U.S. Army leaders, facilitate comradeship and communication among Military Science alumni across the decades and recognize their service and achievements.—has never changed.